Word
Maailmanherruus on meidän, jos emme epäröi nyt.
Meaning
World domination is ours if we don't hesitate now.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Maailmanherruus on meidän, jos emme epäröi nyt.
olla
to be
me
we
nyt
now
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
Questions & Answers about Maailmanherruus on meidän, jos emme epäröi nyt.
Since this lesson teaches the first-person plural negative imperative, how would we change this sentence to say 'Let's not hesitate now'?
You would use älkäämme plus the verb stem and the -ko/-kö suffix. The stem of epäröidä is epäröi-, so it becomes Älkäämme epäröikö nyt. The original sentence uses the standard negative indicative (emme epäröi) because it states a condition with jos (if we don't hesitate), rather than making a command or suggestion.
How is the word maailmanherruus built?
It is a compound of maailman (the genitive of maailma, meaning 'world's') and herruus (domination/mastery). Herruus is formed by taking the noun herra (lord/master) and adding the suffix -uus, which creates abstract nouns similar to '-dom' or '-ship' in English.
Can the genitive pronoun meidän stand alone to mean 'ours'?
What type of verb is epäröidä, and how do we find its stem?